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By Applelinks Senior Editor John H. Farr
An article by IDG News Service writer Paul Roberts running at PC World refers to the new Microsoft monster patch as a "super patch," but that's not how Redmond is labeling it. The latest security update for Windows XP contains 22 "critical updates" and is actually named Update Rollup 1. If you were a Windows user, would this 9 MB package do the trick? Well, not exactly. The components of the last patch, issued on Wednesday -- which fix five critical security holes in Windows and Microsoft Exchange Server -- are not included in Update Rollup 1. (Better tell all your PC-using buddies). But that's not all. Maybe our readers can make sense out of the following policy changes announced by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer last week: In response to customer complaints, the company is switching from weekly to monthly security patch releases, except in cases where customers are in imminent danger because of a flaw, Ballmer said. Are we reading this correctly? Microsoft customers have complained about the frequency of security patch releases, so in response the company just isn't telling them about it except for once a month? As for Ballmer's second revelation, we note that problems with previous security patches have caused some users and IT managers to adopt a "do not patch" position, gambling that the danger from a potential malicious hacker is less than that of upgrading the operating system. Perhaps Microsoft's next advertising campaign will feature a "Don't Fear the Patch!" motto.
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